What is the problem?

Time – each time your IT department or proxy server provider needs to register an IP address change you need to notify each of your content providers; this can be hundreds of individual publishers and require multiple emails to each. Some, or all, of your users may be denied access to content for as long as this process takes.

Accuracy – manually communicating long strings of numbers is fraught with danger as typos can often limit your ability to access or open up access to others. An error in one digit can have disastrous consequences.

"Some impressive teamwork was demonstrated by publishers and libraries working with PSI and their IP registry, to detect, identify, and remediate points of fraudulent access."
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All who care about the publisher-library relationship are asked to contribute and share with colleagues. #scicomm #OpenScience #OpenAccess

To help provide institutions with easier, IP-based access to #Research4Life resources, the IP registry has now uploaded all #R4L accounts for #Mali and #Mauritius. @R4LPartnership is encouraging all #Malian and #Mauritian #libraries to register and use https://t.co/KiVkOLJvKM

We are delighted to announce that @EmeraldGlobal is the latest #publisher to sign up for daily updates with details of IP changes via https://t.co/KiVkOLJvKM. They are encouraging all #libraries to register for FREE access to https://t.co/KiVkOLJvKM.

"Universities are supposed to be bastions of unbridled curiosity and intellectual exploration, not ground zero for the murky world of subterfuge and superpower manoeuvring."
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To help provide institutions with easier, IP-based access to #Research4Life resources, the IP registry has now uploaded all #R4L accounts for #Libya and #Maldives . @R4LPartnership is encouraging all #Libyan and #Maldivian #libraries to register and use https://t.co/KiVkOLJvKM

To help provide institutions with easier, IP-based access to #Research4Life resources, the IP registry has now uploaded all #R4L accounts for #Lesotho and #Laos. @R4LPartnership is encouraging all #Basotho and #Laotian #libraries to register and use https://t.co/KiVkOLJvKM

To help provide institutions with easier, IP-based access to #Research4Life resources, the IP registry has now uploaded all #R4L accounts for #Kosovo and #Kyrgyzstan. @R4LPartnership is encouraging all #Kosovan and #Kyrgyzstani #libraries to use https://t.co/KiVkOLJvKM

“The University of Cambridge warmly supports the IP Registry initiative and looks forward to the greater efficiencies it will bring, not least in reducing the admin overhead with multiple publishers and in ensuring reliability for our usage statistics data”

James CaudwellUniversity of Cambridge

“… we LOVE the work you are doing – such a great collaboration and time saver for all!”